This is the place where the majority of the warbird (aircraft that have survived military service) discussions will take place. Specialized forums may be added in the new future
Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:01 am
well...as of the 9th, I have TBM grease permanently embedded in my wedding dress

guess that's what happens when you get married in a hangar full of airworthy planes.
on the other hand....it's totally appropriate!
Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:05 pm
lets see....
B-17 back door
FG-1D wing rib signed by Cook Cleland
FG-1D Stick grips
ME-109 Armored Front Glass
B-25 tail gunners glass
R-1830 Cracked Jug
B-17 Cowl Flap actuator Panel
B-17 Turbo control
B-17 Flap indicator
Pitot from a P-51D
Stearman Wood Prop
still collecting...trying to send home the B-17 bit by bit...
Jim Harley
Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:28 pm
Cindy wrote:well...as of the 9th, I have TBM grease permanently embedded in my wedding dress

guess that's what happens when you get married in a hangar full of airworthy planes.
on the other hand....it's totally appropriate!
I ruined my Air Force Service dress jacket on a B-29 earlier this year. Not as big a deal as a wedding dress but I thought it was an interesting parallel.
While on the topic of weddings: Between one of my weddings and leaving for the honeymoon, my brother and I went out for a little bull riding. My wife wasn't impressed when I pulled my groin muscle pretty bad. Wedding night perfomance is severly hampered when that happens!
Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:57 pm
I guess that my favourite piece off a warbird would be one of the covers for the staking points off of Spitfire Mk IXc ser#MK923. I have numerous other momentos from the 22 years I spent with 923 such as a wartime propeller blade, a mainwheel tyre, a tailwheel tyre (spitfires have "tyres"), and numerous bits and pieces from inside the cockpit, but the staking cover is my favourite because it is always with me. I keep it on my key ring.
Cheers
Bob S.
Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:39 am
With 300 wrecks , approx 15 basket cases and 200,00 parts ranging from WW1 - WW2 , I wouldn't know where to begin picking my favourite.
Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:24 pm
I guess one of my neat pieces is a B-29 Forward Bombay Hatch. It's in great condition and I was hoping to mount it on the wall with a light box behind it lighting a photo of the Bell X-1 shackled up in the bombay. You would be able to look through the small window and see the X-1 ready for flight.
It's been 9 years and I still haven't fixed it up yet!
Jerry
Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:49 pm
fleet16b wrote:With 300 wrecks , approx 15 basket cases and 200,00 parts ranging from WW1 - WW2 , I wouldn't know where to begin picking my favourite.
Now I couldn't just let this statement go by without further investigation... 300 wrecks, and 15 basket cases?!!! That sounds like something which should be in a thread by itself. Any chance you could share some photos, or at least a list of some of the more significant airframes in your collection? I am extremely curious, as are many of the others I am sure!
Cheers, Richard
Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:33 pm
corsair166b wrote:Got a corner piece off of the old Bob Guilford F4U-7 Corsair 'Blue Max', probably a gear door or flap corner...not very big, I could fit it on my scanner...apparently some rich kid bought the Corsair from Guilford and took him girlfriend for a ride in it and tried to pull off a loop too low and...well, you knot the rest....but what COULD be used of the plane now lives on in the Lone Star F4U-5 thanks to Nelson Ezell....
Mark
Not quite Mark. Bob's partner Marshall Moss was at the controls and it was an airshow volunteer from Brown Field in the backseat. Moss was hardly a young kid. Anyway, the rest of the story is true, he did do a loop too low and failed to recover, as far as I can recall.
Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:48 am
Airdales...............that would be cool as hell!!!!!! One of my projects that I never did was a P&W985 lamp. Imagine a line sitting on top of the crank, and go straight back, I was going to make from there up a lamp with a riveted sheetmetal lamp shade, had all the baffles and intake tubes and covers. They sat around until I donated them to the cause when my uncle up'd his collection of Beech 18's from 1 to 3. 2 of the cylinders that I got from the A&P school that I attended, checked out as good and were OVH.
Somewhere I had pics of a guys kitchen table...........a complete 985 laying on its back with glass cut for the nose to stick through and the glass laying on the cowl brakcets...........Was awsome!!
Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:35 pm
Sorry! Double entry!
Jerry
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Jerry O'Neill on Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:36 pm
The biggest problem is finding a photo of the X-1 as veiwed from the door position. It has to be just right, and preferably in color to make it work well. I could colorize a Black & White one if I had to.
A friend of mine has a B-24 main landing gear wheel and tire and 2 B-25 main wheels and tires that he cleaned up and Armour-all-ed. He then laid them on there sides and put round glass table tops over them. They are now really a neat coffee table and two end tables in his "I-Love-Me-Room"!
I would love to find a DC-3 being scrapped and take a 12 foot section, from the top to the floor, of just one side home. Then make a half of an airliner up against the wall, with windows that have light boxes and aerial photos of Earth, and four sets of seats, facing eachother with a fold up table inbetween. It would be great for entertaining my flying buddies and the grandkids would have a ball!
Jerry
Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:43 pm
I still think that feller with the girl in the helicopter wins
Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:22 pm
I WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE 300 BASKET CASES & 200 THOUSAND PARTS TOO!! ARE YOU THE WALT SOPLATA OF CANADA??
Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:34 pm
bump................
anyone got new stuff?
I've got a P-38L-5 data plate
Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:33 pm
I have a gun site from an F-86F and an antenna from a UH-1 being scrapped at Fort Bliss
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Ztex on Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:57 am, edited 1 time in total.
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